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New photos captured from the sky show that Apple's massive solar farm set to power its North Carolina data center is almost finished.
The aerial images were captured by
The images show that major progress has been made since earlier this year, when Wired commissioned aerial photos of the property. When it becomes operational, the 100-acre solar farm will be the largest of its kind in the country.
The photos show only one of the solar farms that Apple is planning. A second facility, also 100 acres, will also be located a few miles away.
Together, the solar facilities will supply 84 million kilowatt-hours of clean, renewable energy annually. The solar array will allow the data center to use 100 percent renewable energy by the end of this year.
The solar plants will also be supported by a 5-megawatt fuel cell installation that will open later this year. Apple has said it will be the largest non-utility fuel cell installation operating anywhere in the country, and will be powered by 100 percent biogas.
Apple also announced earlier this year that it is working with the a state nonprofit organization to increase local renewable energy production.
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Pretty freakin awesome. There should be a press release coming from Greenpeace congratulating Apple any time now. Not.
PS- the AI new piece hasn't been posted yet, but Samsung got slapped down again at the ITC this afternoon: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/14/samsung-apple-patent-idUSL1E8KDLMI20120914?type=marketsNews
Pretty freakin awesome. There should be a press release coming from Greenpeace congratulating Apple any time now.
Not.
Nah, they'll just come up with something else that bugs them like how much of [fill in the blank with some nasty chemical] that was used to make all of the solar panels or how they destroyed the ecosystem to build it.
I do wonder though, will the Cloud will work when there are clouds?
Great Job Apple!!!
Pretty freakin awesome. There should be a press release coming from Greenpeace congratulating Apple any time now.
Not.
Don't worry even if they do give praise (don't see it happening) it will be offset by the environmentalists crying about the destruction of pristine land, animal rights people complaining about all of the bunnies that were chased away, and finally just think of all of the harmful emissions given off during production of those solar panels...